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James Surowiecki has 150 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they…
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I'm not 'Blockbuster Boy.' I never wanted to be. I wasn't looking for that....
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I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was…
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There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the…
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I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
— Elizabeth McGovern
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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
— Pam Grier
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I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman…
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I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested…
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We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going…
— Wayne Huizenga
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I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I'm gonna miss being CEO and all that stuff. We had an atmosphere where everybody was happy.…
— Wayne Huizenga
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I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful…
— Stanley Kubrick
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